Elizabeth Zelvin

Elizabeth Zelvin is an Agatha and Derringer Award nominated bestselling author known for writing historical fiction, paranormal, and mystery novels. She is particularly famous for writing the Bruce Kohler mystery series. In addition to being an author, Zelvin is also a well known psychotherapist from New York City. Throughout her literary career, author Zelvin has been nominated for the Agatha Award for a total of 3 times and the Derringer Award on two occasions in the category of the Best Short Story. In the historical fiction genre, Zelvin’s novels, Journey of Strangers and Voyage of Strangers are quite popular. The stories written by Zelvin have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including the Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Murder New York Style, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Mysterical-E, Guppies Anthology series, etc. One of author Zelvin’s stories has been included in the list of Best American Mystery Stories of 2014 by Otto Penzler. Author Zelvin has an original songs’ CD called Outrageous Older Women. As of now, she is working on the development of her third historical book titled Kingdom of Strangers. Author Zelvin has been a writer all through her life. She graduated magna cum laude from the Brandeis University and then devoted two years of her life working as a volunteer for the Peace Corps in Cote D’Ivoire, West Africa. After returning from there, Zelvin started taking editing jobs. At the same time, she had started publishing her poems in various journals. In 1983, author Zelvin won a CAPS award for her poetry from the NYSC. Following this, Zelvin went back to school to earn her master’s degree in the subject of social work. This was followed by directing programs of alcohol treatment and maintaining a private practice with the profession of psychotherapy.